For many, the iMac is “Mac” par excellence. Not only because the first generation of this computer was the beginning of the resurgence of Apple in the late 90’s, at the height of the company throughout its history, but because the heir has been over the years, the “soul “original Macintosh: A single body, which included computer and monitor, which was born with the Macintosh in 1984 and was reinvented with the original iMac.
Trends in the line of Apple products have always led the design imposed by the iMac. There is more to remember, again, the first iMacs “Cabezones and translucent, which led to a range of Macs with the same” skin “transparent from the initial to the PowerMac G3 iBooks.

Mac Mini, the desired computer is renewed without much news. In depth.
After many months of waiting for an order of the most coveted products from Apple receives an update that could be called as necessary but not dignified. After waiting so long the biggest problem is that the excitement generated around the team is so high that it may disappoint many people.
Many people, among which I include myself, hoping that this long waiting time was synonymous with a complete change, almost a redesign concept. Finally the update has not been anything of this and have been confined to update an outdated computer in time.

Even with now more than ever it is unclear what the audience is focused on that Mac Mini. Developments such as the Firewire 800, not seen in the model, or the inclusion of a dual port graphics put the Mac Mini as a desktop internally but then the hardware does not accompany this idea. Again, it is unclear where to place this new Mac Mini.
But let’s talk about the real news of this model. Let us start with what many readers want to hear. True, that image that he was a fake affirmations was completely real. For my part I do not understand how Apple has distributed ports and every time I see the rear seems to have “pulled” the ports, almost without any sense.
Call me an old-school, but I’m used to that ports are distributed in a symmetrical and even if I do not see the picture more than a handful of ports disordered. Except for this design is ongoing and we did not find anything new in terms of materials, construction and appearance.
As for hardware should be stressed above all the arrival of the already known by all NVIDIA 9400 small house. A good choice? I believe that if, in fact the most graphic use of my laptop and I can not speak good things over there. Performance is exceptional for not including memory and its performance is certainly light years away from the integrated graphics from Intel.

The biggest problem I see is that it is late, ie, the graph 9400 is already close to half their life cycle so that in less than 9 months we will see that it is no longer a great option as it was in October when it appeared with the early Macs. A highlight in this dual video output emotions yet you will not be said that can connect two monitors at once, and although we all hope is what we need to wait for some analysis to see if this is feasible.
Like the Unibody MacBook has the great defect of being unable to include serial 7200rpm disks so we have to have to change your computer into a real desktop and not a single media center. Serial 120Gb disks included in the basic version and 320 on top of range, all at 5400rpm.
5 USB, wait a moment … 5 USB. I had to say twice that I can not believe it ended, the Mac Mini includes 5 USB. Apple has always included two things little RAM and a few ports so found this wonder seem otherworldly. All this without forgetting the great unknowns of the model, the Firewire 800.
Leaving aside how good it is that for the model comes to mind, the new MacBook is “ugly duckling” of the company? Well it seems that if the range of Apple computers as a whole FW800 port includes at least one exception to the Unibody MacBook.
As for the processor but not a big change from his predecessor is a new generation of processor from Intel, the same as the MacBook, which enjoyed an exceptional performance and low power consumption. On the subject RAM rescued the “myth” and saying before we see the basic model includes an extremely low amount of 1GB of DDR3 memory.
As advanced in the entry, rather than a proper update but I think it comes a little late and we descoloca a little above the place of the Mac Mini within the range. Is launching a computer? Is it anything more than a computer input? Is almost as powerful as the base model iMac?

New Apple Keyboard

Something that I did not expect much less in the flurry of news today is the new keyboard that you commented my companion Samuel Fields in the article of the new iMac.
Basically, the new keyboard is a mix of keyboard with cable and wireless. It has 2 USB 2.0 ports as a normal keyboard, but no keys in the style of the Apple Wireless Keyboard. The result is a keyboard and cable with 2 USB ports, but it saves a lot of space to dispense with the numeric keys.
The other two keyboards of the brand following the sale, so with this we have a range of possible keyboards 3. The new compact keyboard cable Apple sells the Apple Store in Spanish, it costs 49 euros and is delivered in 24 hours.

3D Desktop Zombies, screensavers for Halloween

Now that we are approaching Halloween, which will be preparing our Mac for the occasion. Zombies Desktop 3D Screen Saver is a funny screensaver that shows few zombies roam at your leisure by our Mac, leaving footprints and blood in their wake. Well, what can be selected from the blood and soil by walking, which by default is a snapshot of the computer screen, but can also be the wallpaper or images at random.

If you enjoy movies and gore casquería, this is your screen saver. The trial version shows less zombies (only 6) on the screen that payment, which costs 8.41 euros.

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muCommander, a free alternative to the Finder

One of the great advantages of meeting face to the rest of Mac OS is the Finder, with which manage my files and folders tremendously better than with Windows Explorer. However, there may be people who do not end up getting used in the Finder, which today will bring this alternative.

muCommander is an alternative file browser with which we can explore in two folders at once, very similar to the overall commander of Windows. We can drag and drop files from one panel to another, connect to FTP servers, scan ZIP files or disk ISO images without the need to decompress, and explore the images with its integrated viewer.

If you do not finish like Finder, this program may be a candidate to be installed on your Mac. But since you notice that the design of the interface is not the panacea revolution in design (although it supports skins), and the keyboard shortcuts are completely different to those of Leopard, so its use can be quite confusing. Still, it’s OK to have alternatives such as this.

MuCommander is free, free, multi-platform, in addition to being translated into 21 languages.

http://www.mucommander.com/

CoverScout 3, a tool for the covers of your discs: Features

He has spent considerable time since the first time we spoke of CoverScout in Applesfera, and the program has greatly improved in quality, function and the visual aspect of it. Add headlines to your albums from iTunes is that the truth has never been so easy and so comfortable to use, except the automatic feature of iTunes itself, of course. But for those discs that are not on iTunes, or that we have labeled evil, we must find another solution. And that is where CoverScout.

In the interface we find the list of records that we have in iTunes on our right, the covers of the albums in CoverFlow mode in the middle, and top potential candidates who can choose to cover our discs. The interface, quite minimalist, makes the task of adding the covers is fairly intuitive.

It is also possible to open a browser window from within the program, which tabs appear on the various search sites selected.

The search for the covers can make it in different stores Amazon, among the images in Google and the catalog of Wal-Mart, so there are quite a few chances of finding what you’re looking for. One detail is that the covers are classified as star quality (size) of the same, so we can select the best choice with just one click.

And if you do not find the edit button allows you to capture directly from the iSight the cover, as well as edit the covers that for whatever reason (bad scan, wrong color, etc.) do not match the original. All this in a more comfortable and intuitive to use.

You can also add a color, in case the resolution on the cover is low, and the scaling of the same make the home appear blurred. We can also count on an extended clipboard, where we can go after leaving the images to use them. Another feature is the ability to print the covers, front and rear discs, and so on.

CoverScout costing 29.95 euros. A program is very well done and, if needed, can solucionarte once and for all the problems with the covers of the discs rebels.

People use cell phones to talk to other people when they are on the go. You will find a vast range of cell phones that you can use. Most of these cell phones use cell phone batteries. These cell phone batteries in general will not have any brand names to them. You will find that these cell phone batteries have different sizes. These sizes are based on the cell phone itself.

For most part you will not find the cell phone battery in your phone until you need it. For the most part these cell phone batteries are flat and they need to be inserted in place by someone who has had experience and training. The usual time to get a new cell phone battery is when you can’t recharge your cell phone at all. At this point you will need to see about buying a new phone battery to replace the old malfunctioning one.

As cell phone technology advances you will find that the cell phone batteries come in different sizes to accommodate these new phone sizes. You should make sure that you know what sort of battery your cell phone takes. This will make buying replacement batteries easier.

Now even though it is possible to replace your cell phone with a well working battery you should still take the time to figure out why the battery has died on you. This will allow you to make sure that you don’t make this sort of error happen again. While your cell phone may look sophisticated the battery is very delicate. For this reason you should take care when you are using your cell phone.

The care that you take will repay itself by ensuring that you will not have to worry about cell phone batteries or how you will need to replace them. You will find that the best place to replace these batteries of yours is generally the manufactures of your cell phone. The staff at these places will have not only the knowledge but also the experience.

While technology advances at a furious pace there are still some items in our world that need a helping hand from us. These items like cell phone batteries need to be treated as if they are made from glass. By looking after them in this manner you will be assured that you have a cell phone where you will not have to worry about replacing the cell phone batteries that quickly.

There are several cell phone replacement battery choices on the market, some better than others. Here we will explore a few of the options out there.

Basically, there are four different types of cell phone battery:

• Nickel Cadmium Batteries (NiCd): These are the oldest type of cell phone battery. To counter the problem of “memory effect” which lessens the life of the battery, they must be fully discharged before being recharged. This is obviously more time consuming and lessens the efficiency of the cell phone.

• Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries (NiMH): Developed in the 1990s. These batteries are more efficient than the NiCd type. Although prone to some memory effect, they are quicker to recharge than the NiCd and have a battery life up to twice as long.

• Lithium Ion Batteries (Li-Ion): Lithium Ion Batteries are the most popular cell phone batteries today. They are lighter than the NiMH, do not suffer from memory effect and have a 30% longer life.

• Lithium Polymer Battery (Li-Poly): This is the newest cell phone battery technology on the market. Li-Poly batteries enable the most compact of cell phones and their lifespan is more than twice that of Lithium Ion batteries.

It is important that the battery you choose is compatible with your cell phone. This should always be the one recommended by the cell phone’s manufacturer and is the best way to ensure that both battery and phone are operating at their optimum performance level.

There have, unfortunately, been incidents where cell phones exploded and caused injury due to overheating and poor quality batteries. Many inferior quality batteries are, in fact, fraudulent copies of brand name cell phone batteries.

Companies such as Nokia, Samsung and Motorola are among the many brands that these cheap cell phone batteries have sought to copy.

Nokia, in its 2003 article entitled “Battery Safety – Issues and Prevention” discusses the growing market in fraudulent batteries. It notes thirty to forty battery explosions reported by Nokia customers. In each of these cases, the battery involved was found to be a non-original battery or fraudulent copy of a Nokia cell phone battery.

Nokia goes on to inform the reader of some signs to look out for when buying a replacement cell phone battery. Look at the label. Is it crooked? Are any words misspelled? Are the words: “Made in China” on the label? If the answer to any of these questions is “yes” the battery is almost certainly a forgery.

The safest way to purchase a replacement cell phone battery is to do so through the manufacturer or an authorised dealer. To do otherwise is to put yourself and, indeed, anyone else who may have access to your cell phone, at the mercy of an inferior battery with possibly dangerous consequences.

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Customize your icon Mail 

MacThemes remains an inexhaustible source of graphics resources, both for our Mac to the iPhone or Touch. I found this file by chekkz in Photoshop format, fully editable, so we can set the Mail icon. It is possible to easily change the picture of the stamp, and also edit the text of the postmark. 

It’s free and downloadable from here. Then you can save it in png format and use Candybar, or open with a preview, Edit, Copy and paste the picture in the file information in the mail finder, following the trick to assign an icon that he counted on this entry.

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Possible further details of the next MacBook Pro 

Do not alarméis, the image that you can see above these lines is not official. Many are the ones who are waiting for the evolution of Apple’s flagship laptop, the MacBook Pro. And lately not stop any details of arise from the new model. 

According to recent rumors, the new MacBook Pro has no sharp edges as the MacBook Air, but kept his line. It will be quite thin and the screen (which will be “glossy”) will have a smaller frame. 

The keyboard is black, like the MacBook Air, and the trackpad will be made of glass and offer multi-touch gestures. They even said that the trackpad will match in two areas, so that the activation of contextual menus and the use of virtualized windows more comfortable. And as we discussed recently, the FireWire 800 port would become the standard, FireWire 400 dislodged. 

We are dangerously close to October, and particularly’m seeing that many of the rumors about the new laptops begin to match. As always, we will wait.

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The boys of tuaw have received a breath of an Apple Reseller anonymous, who said that the store had received a letter from Apple telling them to withdraw all displays of demo of Apple TV and destroyed. 

Even with a deadline for doing so: On Tuesday September 30 at five in the afternoon. Yes, Tuesday. In the letter, Apple appears, moreover, that same day on September 30 Apple will launch a webcast. What makes us think that on Tuesday it may have been new developments. 

Will this be the ‘brick’ that was rumored? I am not expecting that the Apple TV had something to do with this, let alone … Perhaps this new computer that Apple wants to launch a more complete media center, or simply the Apple TV 3.0 which already talked recently.

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The lists Genius Genius … lists are great. When we talked about the rumors of the new iTunes 8, said the possibility of a new type of lists quite incredible. The rumors became reality and the “incredible” feature took the name of Genius. 
  
But as usual many people Tacho this new heists of a utility service as Last.fm and the like but also had the sole purpose of making a little bit richer to Apple. I at first I join these people but over time I realized the tremendous value of Genius and its incredible potential. 

The first of these criticisms is more than questionable. Is it like Last.fm? True do the same but the method they use for this is quite different. Last.fm has no algorithm and its suggestions are based on suggestions from other users. 

Genius is an algorithm that improves their searches and suggestions with the passage of time, that is able to evolve in some way “learns” from our music and shows us what’s hot. 

This seemingly unimportant feature that is more interesting because in the case of Genius selecting a ballad leads to all the songs suggested are a fairly slow song or ballad, which was not happening with Last.fm. 

It is also true that Apple obviously not intended as an NGO and although the service is completely free, there is a new menu that suggests to us that we do not have songs with direct links to the iTunes Store, although this menu you can hide and go completely undetected. 

I am the first to criticize the arrival of this feature but over time I realized it is unbelievable that the search algorithm and the wisdom that is in their suggestions. But where has all my respect for the iPhone and is generally in any iPod. 

It’s just great to rediscover your own music while you use your iPod as you select a song or to the gym and the rest of songs you animate in the same manner as that song. I over time I was surprised. What do you think to yourself the new feature in iTunes 8?

Apple patented a screen lock with notifications for future updates to the iPhone

One of many things for improvement in the iPhone is the notification system you have. The device should incorporate some sort of “alerts” that allows the user to know immediately, browsing the lowest number of screens possible, if you have SMS, e-mail or calendar event without reading (at least).

I even settle for a small icon on the top bar (in Installer 3 already existed an application that did this), but until now, officially, we had nothing.

However, a new Apple patent demonstrates the interest in the company by giving a roll to the screen lock iPhone: the screen with more visibility from the user and presents fewer features.

In this patent, we can see a system of alerts for notification on the screen, with the number of messages, e-mails, events, etc … without reading. Apparently could even serve as shortcuts to each of its sections, after unlocking the phone.

Something very similar is already Intelliscreen: a “tuneado” of the blockade on the screen that shows not only what I said, but also even the weather or the news. In this case, Intelliscreen takes a long time, earlier in Installer 3 and Cydia from now (if you have the iPhone OS 2.0 or higher).

Most likely we will see an implementation of this patent at an early firmware revisions of the iPhone: hopefully improve the consumption of resources Intelliscreen, the only weak point of this wonderful application.